libera/##covid-19/ Tuesday, 2022-05-31

BrainstormUpdates for India: +3845 cases since 23 hours ago00:04
BrainstormNew from The Lancet (Online): [Comment] Pandemic preparedness means policy makers need to work with social scientists: A multidisciplinary approach is required to understand, address, and recover from pandemics, and social scientific disciplines are central to this. Specialists in [... want %more?] → https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)00983-7/fulltext00:32
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Quite the lede"The isolation of CCoV-HuPn-2018 from a child respiratory swab indicates that more coronaviruses are spilling over to humans than previously appreciated."cell.com/cell/fulltext/… @CellCellPress by @veeslerlab pic.twitter.com/RqZd6e9NL4 → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/153144163735151001603:14
BrainstormUpdates for Australia: +29376 cases, +43 deaths since 23 hours ago — North Macedonia: +150 cases, +3 deaths since 3 days ago04:10
BrainstormieNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: New Omicron variants are so infectious that South Africa had a 5th wave even though 97% had antibody protection | Fortune - BA.4 & BA.5 → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/v1f73d/new_omicron_variants_are_so_infectious_that_south/04:21
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Progressively taking the death out of the Covid calculus, now 90% reduced from peak worldwide@OurWorldInData pic.twitter.com/GNBRK6gMyC → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/153146657211969945604:48
BrainstormUpdates for Thailand: +3955 cases, +21 deaths since a day ago — Jamaica: +763 cases, +7 deaths, +7688 tests since a day ago05:06
BrainstormUpdates for Minas Gerais, Brazil: +7460 cases, +5 deaths since 3 days ago — New Jersey, United States: +6220 cases, +3 deaths since a day ago — Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: +5290 cases, +9 deaths since 3 days ago — Mexico City, Mexico: +4847 cases, +4 deaths since 7 days ago08:08
BrainstormNew from r/Science: science: Analysis of 6.4 million SARS-CoV-2 genomes identifies mutations associated with fitness → https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/v1j86f/analysis_of_64_million_sarscov2_genomes/08:46
BrainstormNew from Science-Based Medicine: Do Covid-19 Vaccines Affect Fertility?: Fears of future infertility are keeping some parents from vaccinating their children for Covid-19. These fears are not supported by any evidence. The post  first appeared on Science-Based Medicine . → https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/do-covid-19-vaccines-affect-fertility/09:05
BrainstormUpdates for Taiwan: +80628 cases, +90 deaths, +126795 tests since a day ago10:08
BrainstormNew from BBC Health: NHS waiting lists: Seven years to clear Covid backlog warning: A patient paid to diagnose slipped discs and is living in pain with private surgery costing £15,000. → https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-6163438010:41
BrainstormNew from BMJ: Long term implications of covid-19 in pregnancy: Complications in pregnancy, including maternal and perinatal deaths, increased with each wave of the covid-19 pandemic. By contrast, serious illness fell in other high risk groups because of vaccines... → http://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj-2022-071296.short11:28
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch): Another stellar piece of work by the FT’s Visual Storytelling team. Seamlessly blending data, graphics and video with on-the-ground reporting to tell the story of China’s strict lockdowns and their fallout twitter.com/imandylin2/sta… → https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/153157423272714240211:58
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: Global COVID Cases For 31MAY22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/v1ofta/global_covid_cases_for_31may22/13:55
BrainstormNew from Politico: Fighting For Survival in the Shadow of Covid-19: For low-income countries, 'pandemic preparedness' means more than fighting the next virus. It’s about building the capacity necessary to keep entire health systems from crumbling. → https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/31/africa-covid-health-system-ghana-0003569714:05
BrainstormUpdates for Saudi Arabia: +667 cases, +3 deaths since a day ago — UAE: +381 cases, +205134 tests since a day ago — Malta: +99 cases, +1378 tests since a day ago14:07
BrainstormNew from EMA: Human medicine assessment reports: (news): Human medicines European public assessment report (EPAR): Vaxchora, cholera vaccine, oral, live, Cholera, Date of authorisation: 01/04/2020, Revision: 5, Status: Authorised → https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines/human/EPAR/vaxchora14:34
BrainstormNew from Virological.org: Latest posts: Initial observations about putative APOBEC3 deaminase editing driving short-term evolution of MPXV since 2017: @arambaut This is a very interesting hypothesis that would take a while to [... want %more?] → https://virological.org/t/initial-observations-about-putative-apobec3-deaminase-editing-driving-short-term-evolution-of-mpxv-since-2017/830#post_515:03
BrainstormUpdates for Qatar: +269 cases since a day ago15:04
BrainstormNew from ProPublica: How Not to Count Salmon: by Irena Hwang This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Oregon Public Broadcasting . Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are published. When I was assigned to a ProPublica [... want %more?] → https://www.propublica.org/article/salmon-hatcheries-pnw-fish-data#134129615:23
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Taking It As It Comes: Creating Evidence-Based Guidelines During a Rapidly Changing Pandemic: With few exceptions, COVID-19 therapies have not been studied comparatively, so choosing therapies to preferentially recommend is [... want %more?] → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/taking-it-as-it-comes-creating-evidence-based-guidelines-during-a-rapidly-changing-pandemic15:52
BrainstormNew from Virological.org: Latest posts: Initial observations about putative APOBEC3 deaminase editing driving short-term evolution of MPXV since 2017: Thanks Gus - yes all good points (although we do discuss some of them as [... want %more?] → https://virological.org/t/initial-observations-about-putative-apobec3-deaminase-editing-driving-short-term-evolution-of-mpxv-since-2017/830#post_616:41
BrainstormUpdates for Greece: +5291 cases, +17 deaths since a day ago — Singapore: +4985 cases since 22 hours ago — Zambia: +276 cases, +2 deaths, +3079 tests since 3 days ago — Kenya: +117 cases, +2632 tests since 16 hours ago17:04
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Faulty oxygen readings delayed Covid treatments for darker-skinned patients, study finds: Covid-19 care was delayed for Black and Hispanic patients due to inaccurate oxygen readings from devices that can work poorly in darker-skinned people, a new [... want %more?] → https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/31/faulty-oxygen-readings-delayed-covid-treatments-darker-skin-patients/17:10
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: Lessons in Resilience: What HIV Teaches Us About COVID-19: Four lessons learned from the AIDS crisis that can be applied to the fight against our current pandemic. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/lessons-in-resilience-what-hiv-teaches-us-about-covid-1917:20
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): "Our findings suggest that even in the context of airborne transmission, approximately 4% of index [Covid] cases in indoor settings would account for 80% of secondary cases"A new analysis of superspreader events and overdispersionaip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.… → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/153165757775047065717:30
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronavirusUK: Tuesday 31 May 22 - England Hospitalisation Update (18Th - 31St May) → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronavirusUK/comments/v1t64d/tuesday_31_may_22_england_hospitalisation_update/17:49
BrainstormUpdates for Germany: +48546 cases, +50 deaths since 18 hours ago — France: +98 cases since 19 hours ago18:07
BrainstormNew from Contagion Live: COVID-19 Expectations on the Rollout of the Booster Shots: Medical professionals discuss how they affect immunity as well as the necessity of these additional vaccinations. → https://www.contagionlive.com/view/covid-19-expectations-on-the-rollout-of-the-booster-shots18:08
BrainstormNew from StatNews: Pharma: STAT+: Former AstraZeneca executive charged with insider trading over Daiichi cancer drug deal → https://www.statnews.com/pharmalot/2022/05/31/astrazeneca-insider-trading-cancer-sec-daiichi/18:18
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: COVID-19 vaccination and Guillain-Barré syndrome: analyses using the National Immunoglobulin Database → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/v1u4xu/covid19_vaccination_and_guillainbarré_syndrome/18:27
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): Omicron's lethality rate among seniors was worse than Deltanytimes.com/2022/05/31/hea…The waning of vaccinations, lack of adequate booster uptake in this high-risk age group were contributory factors → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/153167379047566540818:37
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Dave Navarro Details His Months-Long Experience with Long-Haul COVID | PEOPLE.com → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/v1ujvc/dave_navarro_details_his_monthslong_experience/18:47
BrainstormUpdates for Italy: +24687 cases, +66 deaths since a day ago19:03
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Eric Topol (@EricTopol): "As of mid-May, more than one-quarter of Americans 65 and older had not had their most recent vaccine dose within a year. And more than half of people in that age group had not been given a shot in the last six months." pic.twitter.com/s2iDznH0x8 → https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/153168173751572889619:06
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Marc Veldhoen (@Marc_Veld): Structure, receptor recognition and antigenicity of the human coronavirus CCoV-HuPn-2018 spike glycoproteinJumping of coronavirus canine-feline recombinantalphacoronavirus (CCoV-HuPn-2018) from cat to human.cell.com/cell/fulltext/… → https://twitter.com/Marc_Veld/status/153168984581854412819:35
BrainstormNew from r/COVID19: COVID19: Clinical severity of COVID-19 in patients admitted to hospital during the omicron wave in South Africa: a retrospective observational study → https://old.reddit.com/r/COVID19/comments/v1vzfe/clinical_severity_of_covid19_in_patients_admitted/19:55
BrainstormUpdates for Spain: +33992 cases, +152 deaths since 3 days ago — Canada: +951 cases, +22 deaths since 23 hours ago20:06
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Florian Krammer (@florian_krammer): A variant in the making. BA.1 with 8 additional spike mutations in a persistently infected individual plus onward spread to the community in New York. Awesome and very important work by my colleagues Harm van Bakel and @VivianaSimonLab medrxiv.org/content/10.110… → https://twitter.com/florian_krammer/status/153170165263750348820:25
BrainstormNew from WebMD: CDC Issues Travel Alert as WHO Downplays Monkeypox Pandemic Risk: Globally, 23 countries have reported 257 confirmed monkeypox cases, along with 127 suspected cases. → https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/news/20220531/cdc-issues-travel-alert-as-who-downplays-monkeypox-pandemic-risk20:34
BrainstormUpdates for Morocco: +320 cases, +46387 tests since 20 hours ago21:02
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): nCoV: LJI scientists publish first head-to-head comparison of four COVID-19 vaccines | link to study in comments | 31MAY22 → https://old.reddit.com/r/nCoV/comments/v1ydqa/lji_scientists_publish_first_headtohead/21:51
BrainstormUpdates for France: +35182 cases, +76 deaths since 23 hours ago21:59
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: China's hot spots start easing COVID-19 restrictions: Lisa Schnirring | News Editor | CIDRAP News May 31, 2022 In the US, the more transmissible BA.2.12.1 subvariant now makes up nearly 60% of sequenced samples. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/05/chinas-hot-spots-start-easing-covid-19-restrictions22:10
BrainstormNew from CIDRAP: COVID-19 severely disrupted global cardiac care, increasing deaths: Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News May 31, 2022 The findings reveal substantial global collateral damage during the pandemic. → https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/05/covid-19-severely-disrupted-global-cardiac-care-increasing-deaths22:20
BrainstormUpdates for Montenegro: +75 cases, +1062 tests since 22 hours ago23:02
BrainstormNew from COVID on Twitter: Michael Lin, MD PhD   (@michaelzlin): SARSCoV2 infections in San Francisco are now at all-time highs. Yes, higher than before vax, before widespread infections of the unvaccinated. This spring wave is all BA.2, whereas winter wave was BA.1. BA.4 is low but could create another wave. [... want %more?] → https://twitter.com/michaelzlin/status/153174152087263232023:08
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): Covid2019: SARS-CoV-2 productively infects human gut enterocytes → https://old.reddit.com/r/Covid2019/comments/v20d7x/sarscov2_productively_infects_human_gut/23:18
BrainstormNew from Reddit (test): CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV: Bad News – Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Infects Cells of the Intestine and Multiplies There → https://old.reddit.com/r/CoronaVirus_2019_nCoV/comments/v20di6/bad_news_coronavirus_sarscov2_infects_cells_of/23:38

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